We had lots of fun learning about mixtures and playing with slime…

We planned and designed our very own letterboxes. With some lovely parents helping us we made our bedroom letterboxes at school. Some of us were able to stick to our original plans and others had to adapt their plans as they went. We were all successful in making a practical and functional letterbox with a hole to post letters and a way to remove the letters we received. Look at our awesome letterboxes that ranged from sharks, to butterflies, to aeroplanes and cats…there was a lot of fun and creativity taking place…

We have had a great time learning all about road safety this term. Ruben the road safety bear taught us that when we come to a road we need to stop, look, listen and link. We practised our skills as we walked down to the Plummers Point Wharf with rooms 7 & 8. We enjoyed our lunch down there before walking back to school. Sgt Jacko and Dan the puppet man came to visit us at school and taught us even more about road safety through a play.

We have really enjoyed this topic and now feel safer on and around our roads.

We have been very busy learning all about birds in room 6. We have made some really fun things too, stained glass pukekos, bird feeders, flying birds and birds on the computers. We know lots of facts about pukekos, kiwis, falcons, oyster-catchers, tuis, parakeets, and fantails. Make sure that you come and check out all of the neat work in our classroom. Here are a few pictures of what we have been up to…

We all had a wonderful time on our camp. We had the opportunity to do lots of new activities. We started our camp at Blair Lodge where we made birds, did a scavenger hunt, raced around the BMX track, learnt how to do archery, climbed over and under the confidence course and played some sport.

Later we walked down to a beautiful waterfall and had a swim before a delicious dinner and singing some songs to our mums and dads. That night we slept in cabins and tents with our mums, dads and friends.

The next day we went to the Katikati museum where we dressed up like we were in the olden days and learnt about things from the past. It was really interesting to see all the old things there. From there we carried on to the Bird Gardens where we ate lunch and fed the birds. It was really interesting to see so many different types of birds. Some of the doves even sat on our arms!

It was a really fun, exciting and enjoyable camp! Thank you to all of the parents that were able to come and help we really appreciated having you there =)

We are really enjoying our new playhouse. We love playing in it at lunch time. Thank you to the parents who helped build it for us!

We have had a great start to the year with all of the children settling in well and beginning to work very hard.

From Room 6 kids 2010